We Do Need to Be Freed from the Bondage of Self, but Not By Ourselves

 

Alcoholics Anonymous is a real con job.

This terrible cult steals some good ideas and proper revelations from the Bible, but the Bible makes no sense or has no power or value for its readers apart from Christ Jesus.

AA is full of half-truths, omissions, and removals. It's a staggeringly dangerous cult, the mixture of law and grace turned into a "self-help" progarm of the worst variety.

So, let's start with something that is true, that is necessary for people to break free of sin, bad habits, hurtful patterns of behaviors.

Yes, indeed, we do need to be freed from the bondage of self.

The more that we look at ourselves, the more miserable our selves become.

In order to break free of yourself, however, we need to stop relying on ourselves.

We need to stop looking at ourselves, too. It's not about us! It's about Jesus!

He is our life! (Colossians 3:4). He is our new identity in before God the Father (Ephesians 1:6)

And yet, the corrupt program teaches people to worship a "higher power" which becomes merely an extension of oneself.

How do I know this? Because the whole "Higher Power" is "as I understand him."

If it's based on our understanding, then it's some being of our own imagination. Ultimately, then, we begin praying to ourselves, worshipping ourselves, or even worse giving into some projection of abusive authority figures who have harmed us in the past.

How corrupt is that?!

There is no freedom from ourselves if we are looking to ourselves to be free. There can be no freedom from self if we draw our understanding of God from ourselves.

On top of all this confusion, there is ongoing demands of "working your program." The whole AA cult is predicated on the adherents working their program, trudging through those God-awful steps every day. Every person in the program is told that they are just one drink away from falling away. Everything depends on them, not on God.

And that means that the AA cult-victims are still in bondage to self.

I need to believe in the Living God, the one who made me, and who does not exist depending on my senses, thoughts, and dictates. We need the Holy Spirit to fully reveal to us who God is, and we see God the Father in Christ Jesus:

"The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation." (Colossians 1:15)

If we want to see God, we need to see Jesus, and if we want to see Jesus, we need to read the Word of God:

"25Then he said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken: 26Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory? 27And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself." (Luke 24:25-27)

Jesus taught of Himself in the Scriptures. Jesus is Salvation, God's loving gracious heart for the entire world, in person. There is no way anyone of us could conceive of a God so loving to us. We have to hear the Word of God, and believe the truth that way (cf Romans 10:17).

No, we cannot rely on our own conception of anything. We need to receive revelation of Him through the Word by the power of the Holy Spirit. AMEN!

I cannot stress this enough: there is no breaking free of ourselves through our own efforts. It makes no sense whatsoever, and yet that is precisely what AA does to its adherents. This terrible cult teaches people to put their trust in a "higher power," and yet this higher power comes into power via our own power.

So, AA cult-victims are right back where they started, trusting in themselves, relying on their own efforts, going around and around in depressing circles, never getting better. I reject this empty way of life. Let us enter into His rest!